Here's The Home The Obamas Will Rent In D.C. (Photo Gallery)

Dcist: Photos: Here's The Home The Obamas Will Rent In D.C.

Well, it's definitely not a white house, but President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have already been there and done that. It looks like the Kalorama abode the Obamas will lease is more of a brick house.

Politico reports that the president's family is renting the 8,200 square foot mansion of former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart and Glamour Washington Editor Giovanna Gray. The Belmont Road house, spotted by Elizabeth Dias of Time, boasts nine bedrooms and eight and a half bathrooms. Redfin estimates that the home is worth around $6.4 million.

The first family is sticking around in the District once the president's term lapses so that younger daughter Sasha can finish high school at Sidwell Friends.

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Editor: Not the White House .... but still very nice.

The Most Expensive Properties In The World That Are Currently On The Market Are Revealed

The Nile Niami Bel Air Spec Home in Los Angeles, which is currently the most expensive home on the market costing $500million 

 Daily Mail: The $100million mansions: The world's most expensive properties that are currently on the market are revealed (but the price tags aren't for the faint-hearted) 

* A list has been compiled revealing the most expensive homes around the world that are currently up for sale
 * Topping the list is a unfinished 100,000 square foot resort in Bel Air that has an asking price of $500million
 * Others featured in the top ten include a bubble palace in France, the Playboy mansion and an apartment in London

Set in sprawling estates in some of the world's most desirable locations, they boast the likes of swimming pools, nightclubs, casinos and even theatres.

And now a list of the most expensive properties currently up for sale has been published, with a 100,000 square foot Bel Air estate on the market for $500million topping the chart.

Christie's International Real Estate, which complies the Luxury Defined report, has drawn up the list of the properties, which all cost more than $100million.

The homes are not often advertised as being up for sale, and are kept shrouded in secrecy.

But here, we reveal the top ten most expensive homes that are on the market right now.

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Editor: My favorite is the the home at Taohuayuan, China (asking price $154million).